Thanks for the input. I am a little surprised that this is not in an
FAQ or whatever re: wine, as everyone who installs a windows app to run
under wine has to go through this.
Thanks,
John
On 04/17/2013 02:25 PM, Fred wrote:
Hello,
I had a similar problem recently on Debian. I was told the cdrom
needed to be mounted with execute permissions.
ls -l /media/cdrom0
Should tell you whether you can execute from it.
As root:
mount -o remount, exec /media/cdrom0
This worked for me (on Debian).
Fred
On 04/18/2013 05:35 PM, Doug wrote:
On 04/18/2013 08:13 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
I am trying to install Visual Foxpro 3.0 from a CD. I understand
that I cannot run it from the c: drive when the windows programs
are. Problem is that I cannot run setup.exe because it is not set
as executable, and I cannot set the executable bit because the
program is on a cdrom.
By the way, I am trying 3.0 instead of the 5.0 and up versions
because I don't think linux was arround then vfp3 was, so ms
propably didn't do anything to keep it from working.
In cause anyone need to know, I am funning ubuntu 12.10 and the
latest wine version (1.58?)
Help?
Maybe this will work:
Copy the exe file and the program it sets up, both, to the
/Wine/c-drive directory. (Don't know if I have that exactly right.)
Before you do that, make sure there are not already some setup files
in that directory, and if there are, delete them.
Then run the setup.exe from the Wine c-drive. There should not be any
permissions problems then, but if there are,
look at the files by the command line: ls -la file.exe, and if it is
not executable, do a chmod +x file.exe I don't know
why a Windows file should have a permissions bit set, but that should
fix it.
Hope that helps--doug
